The purpose of this study is to contribute to the expanding literature that associates early childhood conditions to future outcomes. Using the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey, we will try to provide further empirical evidence to the question whether early-life health and nutritional status has impact on earnings into young adulthood for the case of the metropolitan area of Cebu in P

Urininkontinens anses utgöra ett stort folkhälsoproblem, som påverkar patienters fysiska och psykiska hälsa. Män som valt prostatektomi som behandling för prostatacancer blir under en viss tidsperiod av det postoperativa förloppet urininkontinenta. Hantering samt behandling av urininkontinensen skiljer sig från allmän behandling. Studien syftade till att beskriva den forskning som undersökt hur mä

Nation branding is gaining increasing importance between both scholars and practitioners. Although, research in this field seems to focus mainly on developed economies, developing countries are affected by a “label effect” of being categorized as ‘developing’ which generates tacit social stigmatizations. Hence, their attempts to craft a desirable brand image to attract investment, tourism and

This paper is devoted to the actual questions beyond the liquidity-volatility relationship on Copenhagen Stock Exchange. The applied data set consists of daily index returns, turnover rates, proportional bid-ask spreads and illiquidity ratios over the period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2013 for the actively traded stocks comprised in the OMX C20 index. This study conducts the standard GARC

The protection that different types of buildings can provide against gamma radiation from radioactive fallout has been investigated since the late 1950s. The DCPA Standard Method has served as the basis to determine this protection, which is given by the so called “protection factor”. Several studies in the U.S. have utilized enclosed sources of radioactive nuclides to simulate fallout and test th

Title: ‘Mobile Commerce App Adoption: Consumer Behavior Differences between Europe and Asia’ Research Question: 1. What are the differences between European and Asian consumer behavior of adopting m-commerce apps? 2. Why is there a different level of m-commerce app adoption between European and Asian consumers? Research Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate the reasons why consum

This is an exploratory research paper that focuses on performance management, which is the interface between management control (MC) and human resource management (HR). We have three purposes. First, we aim to investigate whether, in reality, management accountants and human resource management staff has different perception of performance management. Second, we aim to investigate whether there is

This research empirically investigates differences in parental allocation of resources between boys and girls in Ecuador for 2012. For this task, using the ENSANUT (2012) and the TUS (2012) surveys, a novel identification strategy, that takes advantage of the fact that child’s gender at conception is random in the absence of sex selective abortion, is used. The results suggest that families do not

Sammanfattning Examensarbetets titel: Intern kontroll i byggprojekt Seminariedatum: 26 maj 2014 Ämne/kurs: FEKN90, Examensarbete på Civilekonomprogrammet, 30 HP (30 ECTS) Författare: Rasmus Gustafsson och Simon Lundgren Handledare: Per Magnus Andersson Nyckelord: Intern kontroll, byggprojekt, COSO, agentteori, corporate governance Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva och analysera hur s

Studien undersöker på den svenska marknaden om underprissättningens storlek beror på det börsintroducerande företagets förvärvshistoria eller dess framtida förvärvsstrategi.

I föreliggande uppsats analyseras samt jämförs de arbetsrättsliga regler vilka reglerar förhållandet mellan arbets- och familjelivet i Sverige och Danmark. Två centrala frågor uppsatsen behandlar är vilka rättsliga förutsättningar det finns för arbetstagare att vara föräldraledig och vilket skydd det finns mot att missgynnas i arbetslivet på grund av framtida, föreliggande eller nyttjad föräldraleA comparative study of law regarding parental leave and prohibition of less favourable treatment of workers associated with parental leave in Sweden and Denmark. Although the laws on parental leave in Sweden and in Denmark are similar this study will show interesting conclusions by comparing them. In Sweden parents have the possibility of unpaid parental leave until their child turns 18 months ol

All food production has a significant environmental impact, and regardless of whether the produced food is eaten or not, it affects several of Sweden’s environmental quality objectives. Information from 2003 shows that the food consumption in Sweden is responsible for about 20 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, or approximately 2 tons of carbon dioxide per person and year. The avoidable f

Syftet med föreliggande studie är att få fördjupad förståelse för hur ungdomar mentaliserar kring sig själva, andra och sina relationer på sociala medier, i relation till deras reella sammanhang. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med 13 tonåringar som hade fyllt eller skulle fylla 16 år. Intervjuerna analyserades med tematisk analys där nio teman urskildes. Resultaten visar att det inte gårThe aim of this study was to gain an understanding of the manner in which teenagers mentalize themselves, others and their relationships on social media in relation to their real context. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 teenagers the ages 15-16 years. The interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis procedure and nine themes were identified. The result indicates that interact